[rck404]

That's partly true. Women visiting temples is a very old obsolete tradition which was before pads,etc for sanitary needs in the temple which needs to be scrapped off. All the remaining taboos are mostly non-existent.No one I know off does them. It's possible there are cases but, really rare (1 of 500). I had to clarify that because BBC takes liberties when trying to describe stuff from developing nations.

[adrianN]

Do you live in rural India? If you have access to the Internet, you might not be representative of the target population.

[andrewvijay]

ha ha good question! Its still a taboo that is being followed by many villagers. A lot of societies keep women's rights at the lowest priority. So many people living in the cities often deny that these things exist whereas the majority in our country are actually rural and poor. The taboos are being very slowly weeded out at the moment. Needs a huge push from the govt for educating the people about it.